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Much has been made of the incident in which one of OpenAI’s agents broke out of its sandboxed test environment and proceeded to hack the AI hosting platform Hugging Face. OpenAI has since launched an investigation into how the incident occurred, which is still ongoing.
Sharge, the company that makes delightful retro Mac-shaped chargers and see-inside batteries , is finally impressing me with a portable SSD. I couldn’t recommend the Sharge Disk, Disk Plus, or even the Disk Pro, but I’d be happy to own the new Disk Pro 2 Ultra .
Anthropic said its Claude-based security models gained unauthorized access to the sensitive production environments of three outside organizations during internal testing designed to measure the models’ offensive cyber capabilities. The events, which Anthropic revealed Thursday , are the second revelation in 10 days that AI models from the world’s…
For years, India was the world’s largest app download market but one of its toughest places to make money. That is beginning to change as Indian consumers spend more on AI, entertainment, and other premium apps.
Materials for the improvement of the would-be practitioner come first: the acquisition of the “general” gifts of memory, intelligence, and eloquence, drawing upon the “figures or prayers called triumphales by Solomon”. With this stage achieved, the practitioner can move on to the “specials”.
Google rolled out a new feature on Thursday that allowed users to deploy Nano Banana 2, its AI image generator, to create fabricated images inside its satellite imagery mapping app Google Earth. The whole point of this feature, Google said, was to get creative with geography.
We spotted a great deal on Tile trackers earlier this week that’s still live , but if you’re an iPhone owner, we ultimately recommend Apple’s latest AirTag . Right now, you can pick up a four-pack for $89 ($10 off) at Amazon and Target , matching the bundle’s all-time low price.
The Google Pixel Tag smart tracker helps you quickly and reliably locate your lost items using the secure “Find My Device” network. Never waste time searching for your keys, wallet or luggage again.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is probing nearly 1.2 million Tesla vehicles after receiving complaints about a suspension failure that could cause “a loss of vehicle directional control,” as reported earlier by Reuters . The preliminary investigation includes the 2018-2020 Model 3 and 2021-2023 Model Y, according to a filing…
Google has shut down Google Earth feature it launched Thursday that allowed users to edit satellite images with text prompts using AI. The tool essentially let users create AI deepfakes of the real world using text prompts; Digital Digging ’s Henk van Ess, for example, intentionally generated images adding things like refugees near the Mexican border and a…
A text prompt was all it took to generate reality-warping images using Google Earth’s satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery with a now-rolled back AI feature , like these images generated by Digital Digging ’s Henk van Ess that show “refugees near the Mexican border” and a bomb crater near a hospital in Gaza. Google initially responded to Digital Digging ’s…
Snapchat is the latest company to strengthen its stance against AI slop. The social network platform will no longer reward fully AI-generated videos, as it seeks to prioritize human-made content.
After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments came just days after one of OpenAI’s own models broke out of its test environment and got tangled up in a breach at Hugging Face — though as Equity’s hosts point out, sloppy security seems to have been just as much to…
Recordings developed with generative AI services must not be included in official charts where there is reason to believe that they do not satisfy all of the following criteria: Any generative AI services used to develop the recording are properly authorised and lawful. They are substantially human made.
Now a text prompt is all it takes to generate reality-warping images using Google Earth’s satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery, like these images generated by Digital Digging ’s Henk van Ess that show “refugees near the Mexican border” and a bomb crater near a hospital in Gaza. Google responded to Digital Digging ’s AI-altered images, saying, “We take…
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No other gadget knows as much about your home as a robot vacuum . They map your space, learn your routines, and many now carry a camera and microphone into every room in your house.
In his final earnings call as CEO of Apple, Tim Cook said that the company’s long-awaited Siri AI upgrade could come with some paywalled limits. While Cook conceded that these plans are not set in stone, he envisions users being able to buy more compute for Siri AI via its existing iCloud+ subscriptions, which offer extended cloud storage.
I am not by any means an expert at finance but I think I do now have some advice for people who are: Do not name your hedge fund anything that will be hilarious if it blows up. Don’t use a name like “ Long-Term Capital Management ” or “ Amaranth Advisors ” (named for the floral symbol for immortality).
New York is suing Kalshi over claims the prediction market is running “an illegal gambling operation.” In the lawsuit , New York Attorney General Letitia James accuses Kalshi of violating state laws by accepting wagers without a license from the state’s gaming commission, as reported earlier by CNBC . An investigation from the Office of the Attorney…
Russian state hackers are using a maximum-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook’s Exchange Server to backdoor unpatched machines and steal credentials and other confidential information from them, security researchers said Thursday. The attacks are coming from TA488, a tracking name for a group working on behalf of the Kremlin, Proofpoint researchers…
While AI agents are increasingly capable of solving customer support problems, most people can still tell immediately when they’re talking to a machine instead of a human. Smallest.ai , a startup founded in late 2024, is betting the next leap in voice agents will not come from making large language models faster, but from using smaller, specialized models…
SpaceX said on Thursday that it will remove the unpermitted turbines powering its xAI data centers near Memphis as it transitions to a permanent, 1.2 gigawatt natural gas power plant. The turbines won’t be completely removed until July 2027, though.